DirectX 11 Tutorials

The following tutorials are based on my exploration of Frank Luna's Introduction to 3D Game Programming with Direct3D 11.0, adapting the C++ original code into C#, using SlimDX as a managed wrapper for the DirectX libraries.
The code for all of these examples can be found on my GitHub public repository, at https://github.com/ericrrichards/dx11.
To compile and run the examples, you will need Visual Studio 2012.  I have the Professional edition, but I would imagine that you should be able to use the C# Express edition as well.  You will also need SlimDX, which is available either through NuGet, or from http://slimdx.org/, as well as the DirectX SDK, which can be obtained at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6812.  If you are running Windows 8 or greater, DirectX is now included in the Windows SDK, so you will want to grab that for the most updated version of DirectX, at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/desktop/hh852363.
Some of the examples use Assimp.Net to load 3D models.  You can download this from Google Code at https://code.google.com/p/assimp-net/.
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Tutorials

DirectX Initialization and sample framework

Introduces the demo application framework that will be used going forwards, and discusses DirectX intialization and integration with Windows Forms.

Rendering a Colored Cube

Draw a colored cube using simple vertex and pixel shaders.

Rendering a simple terrain with DirectX 11

Creating simple geometric shapes with DirectX11

Loading a mesh from file using a simple text format

Rendering a dynamic vertex buffer with DirectX 11

Phong Lighting Theory

Adding Lighting to the simple terrain

Creating a basic reusable lighting shader

Texture Mapping in DirectX11

Adding textures to the simple terrain

Sprite animation using a texture atlas

Alpha Blending in DirectX 11

Using Alpha Blending on the simple terrain

Planar Reflections and Shadows using the Stencil Buffer

Rendering Billboards using the Geometry Shader in DirectX 11

Creating a reusable FPS-style Camera class for DirectX11

Creating a reusable RTS-style Camera class for DirectX11

Frustum Culling and Hardware mesh instancing

Screen-World Picking with DirectX11

Skyboxes and environmental reflections with CubeMaps

Dynamic Cube-mapped reflections

Bump and Displacement mapping

Examining the Tessellation Stages of DirectX11: Hull & Domain shaders

DirectX11 Terrain rendering with LOD

DirectX10-compatible Terrain rendering with LOD

A Simple Loading Screen using Direct2D

Generating Random Terrain with Perlin Noise

Generating Random Terrain with Perlin Noise

Loading 3D models with Assimp.Net and SlimDX

Skeletal Animation with Assimp.Net and SlimDX

Hardware Particle Systems with DirectX 11

Expanding the BasicModel Class

Shadow Mapping

SSAO

Displacement Mapped Water

Terrain with Shadow Mapping and Ambient Occlusion

A Terrain Minimap

Terrain Mouse Picking

Pathfinding 1: Map Representation and Preprocessing

Pathfinding II: A* and Heuristics

Pathfinding III: Putting it All Together